Developing leaders? developing countries

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3886908
AutoresHenry Mintzberg (0009-0008-8754-0865, McGill University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Páginas414-426
Data de publicação2020-09-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1201/9781849775427-43
OpenAlexW4232937241
ISBN9781849775427
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas2

A visit to Ghana, with the hosts interested in developing leaders and the guest interested in developing countries, led to a questioning of both. Three approaches to development are discussed. The top-down government planning approach, discredited with the fall of communism, has been replaced by an outside-in ‘globalisation’ approach, which is now promoted as the way to develop an economy. But has any nation ever developed by throwing itself open to foreign companies, capital, experts and beliefs? The notable success stories, including the USA, point to a third approach, inside-up indigenous development, which has worked in concert with state intervention. Globalisation thus denies developing countries the very basis by which other countries developed. This argument is woven together with a corresponding one about the development of leaders, which must also happen indigenously, from the life experiences of individuals, not programmes that purport to create leaders. We have had enough of hubris in the name of heroic leadership, much as we have had enough of foreign experts pretending to develop the ‘developing’ countries

Business · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Globalization · Hubris · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · International Development and Aid · Law · Leadership and Management in Organizations · Organizational Learning and Leadership